Quantity Over Quality in the Reading/Bookish Community

This is an idea I got while binge-watching a bunch of YouTube videos (some BookTube videos, some other YT videos). I can't quite place what the video was exactly about, but it essentially talked about the idea of "quantity over quality," which is something I wanted to apply to the bookish community.

Back in July, I made a couple of posts on pressures readers can face. You can quickly reach those posts here: 6 Pressures I've Faced as a Reader and 8 Phrases for Combatting any Reader Pressures You May Feel. These posts, along with the whole idea of "quantity over quality," got me thinking about how the bookish community approaches reading and reading goals.

How does this idea of "quantity over quality" apply to the bookish community? Here are a few ways:

1. Reading less than 5 books in a month is a "bad reading month" (or, at least, it's not a good one)
2. Reading 5+ books in a month is a "good reading month"
3. Reading less than 50 books in a year is a "bad reading year"
4. Reading 50+ books in a year is a "good reading year"

Yes, you can read as many books that you feel comfortable reading in one month or one year. However, do not have to do this just because other readers are reading that many books or more. You should read what you can, and try to enjoy as many books as you are able to.

In many cases, you're not reading books to actually read them, and possibly even enjoy them. You're trying to hit a specific number of books to have a "good reading month" or a "good reading year." And, in my opinion, a "good reading month" or a "good reading year" should be based on how many books you enjoyed rather than how many books you read overall.

I want to start really promoting the idea of "quality over quantity." As long as you enjoyed most of the books you read in a particular month or year, then that's good. Even if you only read 5 books in one reading year, as long as you enjoyed all 5 of those books, then your reading year was a good one.